This ICT Integration project involves developing a web quest for year five students based around a holiday and exchange visit with NZ school students. As required the web quest involves four sequential lessons. The project is based on the Society and Environment learning area and the investigation, communication and participation (ICP) substrand. Curriculum links have been based on the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum for english, mathematics, and general capabilities in personal and social competence and information and communication technology (ICT) competence. As the Australian Curriculum implementation is still in phase one and does not yet include society and the environment, the syllabus has been used for this learning area.
Lesson 1
Students will gather information using the focus questions and resources provided in the WebQuest. Students will use the desktop and other tools in Activ Inspire to annotate a map detailing their flight routes and travel plans. Students will ask and answer questions pertaining to their presented maps.
Curriculum Links Mathematics Location and transformation Describe routes using landmarks and directional language (ACMMG113) Information and communication technology (ICT) competence Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks.
Syllabus Links Society and Environment ICP - Processing and Translating Acknowledge information sources using references Society and Environment ICP - Planning To plan using teacher directed formats Society and Environment ICP – Conducting To gather relevant information from websites. To extract simple information from a variety of websites
Lesson 2
Students will produce a Webspiration concept map that summarises information located from internet sources. This information will form the basis of a developing itinerary. The information must be organised in such a way as to allow logical development of a time and date based itinerary.
Curriculum Links Information and communication technology (ICT) competence Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks.
Syllabus Links Society and Environment ICP - Planning How to search select and organise information and/or date using ICT Society and Environment ICP – Conducting To use ICT to represent ideas and create responses to problems and tasks To transfer information from one context to another.
Lesson 3
Students plan an itinerary for one week of their holiday. Students will present this information in a PowerPoint format in order to justify the decisions they have made regarding activities undertaken and places visited to their teacher, classmates and school principal.
Syllabus Links Society and Environment ICP – Applying and Communicating Findings To communicate findings in a variety of roles.
Society and Environment ICP - Processing and Translating Acknowledge information sources using references.
Curriculum Links Literacy Interacting with others Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700) Literacy Creating texts Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704) Mathematics Measurement and Geometry Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them (ACMMG110)
Lesson 4
Working collaboratively students will develop a video presentation targeted at encouraging their NZ student counterparts to return the visit. Students will take the role of potential hosts providing information NZ students may require if they were travelling to Australia. This presentation will provide information pertaining to their Australian school and community. Students will present this video to their classmates for critiquing.
Syllabus Links Society and Environment ICP – Applying and Communicating Findings To communicate findings in a variety of roles.
Curriculum Links Literacy Interacting with others Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700) Information and communication technology (ICT) competence Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks Personal and social competence Perceive and understand other people’s emotions and viewpoints, show understanding and empathy for others, identify the strengths of team members, define and accept individual and group roles and responsibilities, be of service to others (Social awareness)
Form positive relationships, manage and influence the emotions and moods of others, cooperate and communicate effectively with others, work in teams, build leadership skills, make decisions, resolve conflict and resist inappropriate social pressure (Social management).
Summary of Project and Curriculum Links
This ICT Integration project involves developing a web quest for year five students based around a holiday and exchange visit with NZ school students. As required the web quest involves four sequential lessons. The project is based on the Society and Environment learning area and the investigation, communication and participation (ICP) substrand.Curriculum links have been based on the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum for english, mathematics, and general capabilities in personal and social competence and information and communication technology (ICT) competence.
As the Australian Curriculum implementation is still in phase one and does not yet include society and the environment, the syllabus has been used for this learning area.
Lesson 1
Students will gather information using the focus questions and resources provided in the WebQuest.
Students will use the desktop and other tools in Activ Inspire to annotate a map detailing their flight routes and travel plans. Students will ask and answer questions pertaining to their presented maps.
Curriculum Links
Mathematics Location and transformation
Describe routes using landmarks and directional language (ACMMG113)
Information and communication technology (ICT) competence
Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks.
Syllabus Links
Society and Environment ICP - Processing and Translating
Acknowledge information sources using references
Society and Environment ICP - Planning
To plan using teacher directed formats
Society and Environment ICP – Conducting
To gather relevant information from websites.
To extract simple information from a variety of websites
Lesson 2
Students will produce a Webspiration concept map that summarises information located from internet sources. This information will form the basis of a developing itinerary. The information must be organised in such a way as to allow logical development of a time and date based itinerary.
Curriculum Links
Information and communication technology (ICT) competence
Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks.
Syllabus Links
Society and Environment ICP - Planning
How to search select and organise information and/or date using ICT
Society and Environment ICP – Conducting
To use ICT to represent ideas and create responses to problems and tasks
To transfer information from one context to another.
Lesson 3
Students plan an itinerary for one week of their holiday. Students will present this information in a PowerPoint format in order to justify the decisions they have made regarding activities undertaken and places visited to their teacher, classmates and school principal.
Syllabus Links
Society and Environment ICP – Applying and Communicating Findings
To communicate findings in a variety of roles.
Society and Environment ICP - Processing and Translating
Acknowledge information sources using references.
Curriculum Links
Literacy Interacting with others
Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700)
Literacy Creating texts
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
Mathematics Measurement and Geometry
Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them (ACMMG110)
Lesson 4
Working collaboratively students will develop a video presentation targeted at encouraging their NZ student counterparts to return the visit. Students will take the role of potential hosts providing information NZ students may require if they were travelling to Australia. This presentation will provide information pertaining to their Australian school and community.
Students will present this video to their classmates for critiquing.
Syllabus Links
Society and Environment ICP – Applying and Communicating Findings
To communicate findings in a variety of roles.
Curriculum Links
Literacy Interacting with others
Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700)
Information and communication technology (ICT) competence
Create with ICT: using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and products to create solutions to challenges or learning area tasks
Personal and social competence
Perceive and understand other people’s emotions and viewpoints, show understanding and empathy for others, identify the strengths of team members, define and accept individual and group roles and responsibilities, be of service to others (Social awareness)
Form positive relationships, manage and influence the emotions and moods of others, cooperate and communicate effectively with others, work in teams, build leadership skills, make decisions, resolve conflict and resist inappropriate social pressure (Social management).
References:
Department of Education. (2011). K-10 Syllabus Society and Environment. Retrieved from http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/k10syllabus/detcms/navigation/society---environment/?oid=Category-id-10862627
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2011). The Australian Curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Home